My last guests left this morning before 8:00. I have their rooms cleaned up and ready to go. They left a charger and a playbook so will have to ask my house sitter to mail them for me tomorrow. They were nice guests who requested space for next year’s disc golf tournament.
My Match guy should be leaving OK soon to head my way. We are leaving tomorrow morning around 7:00 and hoping to get well into WY by nightfall. There are blizzard warnings up for CO today so we will see what the weather brings tomorrow. May have to alter our route. Our first major destination is the Olympic Hoh Rain Forest in Washington State. From there we will head south to go through the Redwood Forest and then on into Berkeley. We will spend several nights in Berkeley at an Airbnb. We will be visiting my Match guy’s son as well as my friends I met on the Camino. From there we will head for the Grand Canyon via Yosemite. We will then stay several nights in Santa Fe before we return home mid-month.
My bags are mainly packed. Just need to add last minute stuff in the morning after I get dressed. I have to take clothes for winter weather and for summer temperatures. One disadvantage to car trips is I feel I have room to take extra stuff. I rarely use it but since I have room I bring it along.
I have a stew cooking in the oven for dinner tonight. It is making me very hungry today with the yummy smell. May need to take a nap to make the time go by faster this afternoon until my Match guy gets here. I’m getting anxious and excited.
I decided to have a lunch on Sunday the weekend Kathy is coming home which is Memorial Day weekend. I am hosting a coffee Saturday morning for her friends to come visit her and am having the lunch on Sunday primarily for extended family members. I mailed out invitations today. I love getting all my family together and hope my cousins, aunts and their families will join us. My Match guy is planning on being here that weekend so my family can meet him too. It will be a busy weekend but one filled with lots of love and laughter.
I was getting ready to go out to mow and it started raining. Looks like it might be clearing up a bit so maybe I can still get the mowing done this afternoon. If we get the rain predicted this week my grass will be very high by the time I get home. May need to twist my son’s arm or my SIL’s arm to get them to come mow while I am gone. Both like to ride my mower.
May is going to go by fast. I won’t be back home until the 16, 17 or 18th. Kathy comes the 24 – 27 and then I have a house full of guests coming in May 27 – June 2. No rest for me in May. I’ll be gone for three weeks again in July and in August am having a bunion surgery. Wow! My schedule is filling up quickly.
I am ready to hit the road again There was a Facebook meme today that said “I want to get in my car and drive until I find what I’m looking for. Maybe it’s purpose, maybe it’s a fresh start or maybe it’s just a sky with unclouded stars.” That kinda sums up this trip for me.
Grateful the house is reset and clean again, grateful my Match guy will be here soon, and grateful to be leaving on another adventure tomorrow morning. I will only blog occasionally while I am gone. Text me if you need to get hold of me 620-481-8323. Much love and light to each of you!